Upgrading Visual Studio 2008 from trial to full on Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000)

Here is a more-or-less complete guide to upgrading Visual Studio 2008 trial to pro in Windows 7. Download and install/unzip AnVir Task Manager Free (portable version here: http://www.anvir.com/downloads/taskfree.zip) Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features. Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional ENU, click Uninstall/Change at the top of the list. Wait for … Read more

How to change .ASPX automatic formatting settings (Visual Studio)

The Text Editors menu is all there is, and it doesn’t allow you to do the things you want. When you right-click on an aspx page, click “Formatting and Validation…” and then click the button “Tag Specific Options…” you get a bunch of settings per client- or server-tag, but not for the <%-tags. As for … Read more

Avoiding Visual Studio designer errors when WPF resource is defined in separate project

You could create your own ResourceDictionary class, inheriting from ResourceDictionary. Then you can arrange that at design-time this custom ResourceDictionary loads some explicitly defined styles (i.e. those loaded from the app at runtime), whereas at runtime it does nothing at all. The IsInDesignMode-Property could be evaluated for this. Say you have such a class, called … Read more

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